Finding great studio comedies over the past five years have become something of an anomaly. It's not exactly a mark on the films themselves. Theatrically released comedies aren't prioritized as much as they once were, with most of the genre's fare going straight to streaming. The landscape is a much different place than it once was, so it only made me even more excited when Paramount Pictures seemed committed to not only giving "The Naked Gun" a big theatrical run but also a hilarious marketing campaign to go along with it. It paid off, too; in addition to raking in over $100 million at the global box office, Akiva Schaffer's legacy sequel to the 1988 comedy of the same name is arguably the funniest movie of 2025 so far.

/Film's Ethan Anderton praised "The Naked Gun" for giving him the

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